Single-player games like Lelu
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Lelu, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Goldstained
Single-player alternative to Lelu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lelu.
Explore a dangerous, fantastical world and slay the divine being that corrupted it. Goldstained is a top-down 2D action-adventure where unlocking new weapons with new movesets is your way forward through boss fights, puzzles, and combat!
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Ichorian Tales
Single-player alternative to Lelu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Lelu.
Inspired by the traditional Zelda formula, Ichorian Tales is focused on that old-school dungeon crawling experience! Explore, fight enemies, solve puzzles and obtain new abilities to crack open the dungeon and fight massive bosses!
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.Rise // Access
Single-player alternative to Lelu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lelu.
A fast-paced Metroidvania fusing versus fighting with shoot 'em up mechanics in intense choreographed combat. As the last survivor of the cat folk, awaken deep within the Ark. Guided by the Oracle, uncover the forbidden secrets of her mind slipping into madness.
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The Dreamthief
Single-player alternative to Lelu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lelu.
Bjørn watches a mysterious figure steal his parents’ dreams and follows it into a world consumed by nightmares. Explore, fight, solve puzzles, and open rifts between dream and nightmare in a Ghibli-inspired isometric action-adventure about facing childhood fears.
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Inferno
Single-player alternative to Lelu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lelu.
Your commanding officer betrayed you. Run, jump, dash, and FIRE as you hunt him down through a Genesis-style revenge mission.
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NANOTINKER
Single-player alternative to Lelu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lelu.
Nanotinker is an isometric 3D plateformer. Use your tools and your mind to evolve in an abstract universe that blends known plateformer and puzzle features. Unriddle environmental puzzles, progress and outsmart traps to unravel a mysterious story.
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Neural Maze
Single-player alternative to Lelu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lelu.
2 neurons. 2 sticks. One brain has to drive both at once: yours. Guide your stray neurons through ever-more-twisted mazes — inverted controls, power cuts, memory mode — under the eye of a doctor who's in over his head.
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Dust to Dust
Single-player alternative to Lelu — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Lelu.
Fight for your afterlife in this colorful, action-packed 3D top-down Metroidvania-style game! As a ghost on the run in a specter research facility, sneak around interconnected levels, unlock new powers and team up with the local psychic to turn gigantic foes into dust.